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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Ok, so no one even tried to guess who the person was who wrote this wonderful tune. Oh well. It was just Michael Jackson’s favorite song Ever, and has been recorded by just about everyone and forever… oh well.

Before I go further, let me remind you to go directly to my site, as I’ve noticed that the emails wordpress sends out are really ugly. Badly laid out. And they ruin my spacing and artful layouts. Please. Go. to. My. Site. An even bigger reason? Then I get encouragement from seeing the visit numbers go up. And folks, writing is such a lonely art…. we need encouragement.

So…..Who wrote ‘SMILE’…? It was Charlie Chaplin! That was such a surprise to me, and I had no idea he did any musical type stuff, but it’s not really a giant anomaly. People with tons of talent seem to let it leak out in all directions. It almost doesn’t matter what they do, if they aim their energies there, it works.

I seem to have three different themes going on in my head right now, so soon as I focus on one, you’ll know it. And it will be soon. They’re stacking up like train cars, and getting impatient to be on their way.

Smile though your heart is aching…….. Smile even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky you’ll get by. If you Smile through your pain and sorrow ……..Smile and maybe tomorrow You’ll see the sun come shining through………. For you. Light up your face with gladness…………………..Hide every trace of sadness. Although a tear may be ever so near……. That’s the time you must keep on trying…Smile, what’s the use of crying.. You’ll find that life is still worthwhile ……… If you just Smile

If you know who wrote this little treasure, please Comment me…. If you don’t, I’ll be back tomorrow to surprise you!

His latest is about aging, and he begins with this thought: “For many, aging is not about feelings, not about youth, it is about hotness.”

“Corporeal incarnation was probably a deal you made. Drunk on nectar and ambrosia, a giddy moment between incarnations, and with the foolish overconfidence of the disincarnate, you signed on for a mortal incarnation, which at the time seemed like the intense thing to do, kind of like a Nineteenth Century adolescent who thought going to war would be an exciting adventure.” ………Jonathan Zap

This guy is a wonderful writer and a major thinker. He’s also Wildly Amusing…. I highly recommend your checking out his site, and checking in once in a while, when you need a little pick me up. He does just that!

Right now I’m half way through this latest missiles, and over my morning cup, have decided once again that he’s a worthy guru. Hope you enjoy touching in on a brilliant mind.

Have you seen the film Chaplin, made in 1992?… Robert Downey Jr plays the original screen clown, and if you haven’t seen it, forget the fact that you may have no idea who Charlie Chaplin is. I know a lot of you are too young to know or appreciate the history of film, and just what he was in that early world. And that’s fine, just See The Film.

Likely old flashes come to mind of what he looked like, and it’s also likely that those images are from a long series of adverts from back in the eighties. A friend of mine auditioned those decades ago, as he is an incredible mime (a Real mime, not the ones trying to get out of a box), and he said he walked into a room full of Charlie Chaplins, like 300 of them. It must have been pretty surreal. Oddly enough, he ended up with the contract, and it was a big one…. Billy had Five Years as Charlie, for the IBM series. So there you go, and there’s your reference, I bet.

Chaplin was in on the earliest films, before they were Talkies. And his antics, along with Max Sennett’s vision, really set a lot of the old black and white style. He was incredibly talented, nimble as they come, and funny as shit. I think we can easily say Intelligence shined through his work, although right now you’re likely thinking: Slapstick? Intelligent? well…Yes. And the inheritor of a classic form, Commedia, that goes back to Greek and Roman times.

RDJ does the most amazing work in this film, his physicality startling, his miming ability (the ability to physically imitate a person, or act out a situation without words) Beyond. Believe me, you will be delighted and amazed if you’ve never seen this film.

It was early in his career, before his big bumps with sex, drugs, rockandroll, but it shows him in his full youth and beauty. A lot of the film fills in his history and the details of the times, and it is definitely worth watching, but I admit to double and triple playing those scenes where he just does his act as Charlie. One more thing: Just Look at those Eyes! Oh ya… one more thing… he got an Oscar and Golden Globe Nomination for best actor. And I need to note that Kevin Kline played the most adorable version of Douglas Fairbanks ever. And there is a tasteful reference to his being gay, which I had never heard. In those days, it was never spoken, and he was married to Mary Pickford, a major star at the time. I guess things haven’t really changed that much, especially in Hollywood.

Another film that he did, one that didn’t get a lot of press, is FUR, with Nicole Kidman. It’s a fantasy film about the photographer Diane Arbus, he plays a furry neighbor covered head to toe like a circus character, and since she is fascinated with freaks, she becomes obsessed with him. The film is somewhat dark, and holds you captivated. This time, it’s his eyes that do the capturing, and since that’s about all you can see clearly, he works them beautifully. Again…..Gorgeous eyes, and a fun film. If it’s not an Indy, it sure feels like one.

I am so happy that he has gotten himself together, and with IRON MAN allowing him to break out and show some star power (and as he said, be a super hero to his little boy), perhaps we’ll see more acting ability from this extraordinary guy. I hope he chooses some challenging parts, and stretches himself to new heights of pleasure for us, and for him, because he’s one of the Big ones.

Too many words. Too much time with too much talking. I am not letters and numbers. I am an ever moving rotating changing nebulae of a combination of innumerous elements, causals and vortexes.

I cannot be measured by inches and instruments, nor with words or a voice. I must be experienced. Too much mind equals Stupid.

Why do we love dogs? Because they don’t talk. They must be Felt. Words can be a defensive fence.

Phone talks and mail words do not love create, nor allow. They are not closeness, they are not touch, they are not Grok. You may love something they said, but that is not them. You may hate something they wrote, but that is not them. They may write something, or use words that confuse you and send you back to the hollows of your inner world, where old spirits haunt and tell you lies.

But that is not them.

By not sharing face to face, you never give it a chance to be Real. How can Words tell who you Are. How can Explanations fill in the True Colors that beam from your being…

It’s all about the Is-ness.

(And isn’t it amusing that I use words, to explain that words can’t tell it…. ?)

Who they are is everything, and everything must be tasted and smelled, heard and touched, with eye filling floods and sensory overload. Energy fields will tell you more than a million words ever will.

And the body electric does not lie. But the brain can….

Words lie. Words say three things at once. Words are mis-interpreted and mis-heard, mis-remembered. We all just live inside the collection we call our brain, and without shutting it down with other senses, all is only thought, and subject to mismanagement.

You are a kind and gentle Bear with an Arrow in his heart.

Until you decide that Trust is appropriate, maybe even beneficial, there can be no surgery, no release, no sharing of essences with another.

As long as the List is reviewed, your Interviews conducted, your Tests and Grades awarded, there can be no pure touching.

The guard is up, the protective filter scanning the horizon for incoming… The ammo ready for release when needed, the foxhole deep and quiet.

Never mess with a wounded bear. Even if that bear has asked you if you might be able pull the arrow from his heart. Surely he knows it will hurt, and just as surely, he knows it will feel better when it’s out. And Yet……. He will misinterpret your intentions, miss your signals, and retreat when least expected. He will growl at you, in between those occasionally long and soulful moments of genuine contact.

One will find it hard to interpret their intentions, and it is likely they are having just as much difficulty themselves.

They may ask or need explanations, then complain about so many words. Pain confuses and confounds. It makes it hard to trust. And it makes a body want to go away and hide, where none can make that pain any worse than it already is.

And you are left feeling unheard, mis-taken, un-seen.

Trust is not something easily won….. it Never is, but when Pain sings too loudly, it can step in and make decisions for you, without you.

Recently I reached out to someone I felt drawn to, and we lightly conversed on line, then had a couple phone conversations. I was sort of girlishly excited, became silly and talkative, and began feeling a bit of a thrill of that chemistry I’ve been talking about.

I found him sweet, open, smart, worldly, gentle, soft and manly. Good combo. And for me, one sign is that I start feeling all girlie…. We laughed a lot, talked about a dozen different subjects, and laughed some more… for me, laughter is a turn on.

Going only on photos, I believe, was in some ways a hinderance, for at some point he found himself put off by something or some things that escaped from my mouth, due to excitement and a certain feeling of relief ….. a giddiness to actually feel warmed up by someone for a change… and he momentarily stopped in his tracks.

Something I said pushed some button somewhere, likely from the past, and he found himself distanced from the Me that was on his screen. And he didn’t voice this at the time, on the phone. He just backed away.

Now if we’d met somewhere, and struck up the same conversation, we would have been conversing on more than several levels, and learned a lot more in a shorter time.

And at a different time, I wouldn’t have been so soul weary at yet one more person to check out and be interesting to, entertaining him and making him laugh.

But as it stands, all I’ve learned is that I attracted someone who seemed one of the better prospects, only to make some blunders and shut down the doors by the wrong sharing at the wrong time. A clash of Moods.

If he’d known me a little longer, he would understand that I am a passionate and in the moment person, one who does not always filter the mouth, and also one who covers her vulnerability with layers of bravado and blasé, throwing in chatty humor as distraction. And I might have known that he has buttons and sensitivities from the past (don’t we all), and been able to avoid certain areas, leaving them for later.

I am actually, at times, quite fragile. I can be defensive, and I can also be the most caring and empathetic person, which has been one of my downfalls most of my life. Only recently have I learned to be a bit more cynical and distant, and not give away my shirt, or heart, to just anyone.

I am more complicated than many, more sensitive than most, as awake as I can stand to be, and I guess I possess faces and facets that I use, and that use me. So I am at a definite disadvantage when on a cold, hard page…

All I really learned was to play my cards close, give away as little as possible, measure my words, be mysterious, and watch for clues. And also to shut the fuck up.

And it’s hard to do that on line, or on the phone…. They may seem to be agreeing with you, or engaging in consentual conversation, but their eyes, their body language isn’t there to guide you in or out of a situation. All you have are voices, and words. And on line or on the phone, long silences don’t go over very well, and there is no room for non verbal communication.

I for one, tend to talk too much when I’m nervous, so there you go. And there he went. Just for the moment, I might add, not to discourage you, as we are now straightening out the misunderstandings of Words that got in the way of our magnetic attractions, and learning more about eachother.

I never have been brilliant at filtering myself, editing myself. I tend to just say what I’m thinking or feeling at the moment, and then in another moment I feel and think a different way, or from a different side of me. Or I’ve moved on Exactly Because I expressed those thoughts, and was actually looking for feedback…. From myself, or another.

Sometimes I say things to See how they Feel. Sometimes I say things in a way that might sound like I’m believing them, when actually I’m Asking if it’s true.

And most important to remember, sometimes we All say things that strike another in an entirely different way than intended, because of Their mood, or Their experience, and the established buttons. Sometimes it’s just because Words are a Bitch at best.

If there is no basis for discourse, if Trust hasn’t been established, then we are free to make assumptions, and walls can come up. People hear what they Expect to hear, and those expectations, often times, come from past experience.

And now we know that our memories are quite selective, and mutate with time, so that this years’ memory has developed some life of its own from last years’ actual experience. Many times, we are being led around by a fantasy world that doesn’t even exist in reality.

Next time, I’ll tell you about another friend I’ve made. He has provided a Hotbed of potential, but don’t get excited…. Not quite as Hot as I’d wished for, which is a completely Other discussion, things to unfold, confusions to coalesce, and Choices.

It just gets more confusing, but I am assuring myself that I will indeed untangle this plate of spaghetti that I have handed myself, and eventually things will fall into place.